Frock Coat puzzler........
In a discussion on FB about an image of Federal Corporal in a frock coat, with eppaulettes. Trying to figure it out, as to possible state issue, or Private purchase. Right now, leading argument is Private Purchase.
Bobby Hughes
Co A, 2nd Battalion Ga Sharpshooters/64th Illinois Vol Infantry "Yates' Sharpshooters"
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Co C, 3rd US Infantry
Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum & William Scarbrough House, Savannah, GA
"I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy." - James Longstreet at a Memorial Day Parade in 1902.
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